Release Notes

Version 2.0.1

This is mainly a bugfix and performance-enhancement release. This release requires Player-2.0.1, released simultaneously.

The only major new feature is the addition of support for Player's speech interface: speech bubbles show the text being "spoken" by each robot. The text is rendered using Pango, so non-Roman alphabets are supported.

Richard Vaughan (rtv) vaughan@sfu.ca 2006.3.24

Version 2.0.0

This is a major new release of Stage, and is intended to replace all previous versions. It requires Player-2.0.0 or later.

Please report bugs to the tracker and let us know what you do with Stage.

Richard Vaughan (rtv) vaughan@sfu.ca 2006.2.26

New Features

Significant user-level changes include:

• Stage is now implemented as the C library libstage. Using libstage, your programs can include a sophisticated robot simulator with a few lines of code. The Player plugin libstageplugin is a wrapper for libstage that provides simulation services to Player. Player with libstageplugin is the Player/Stage system.

• Player clients can draw directly in the Stage window using the graphics2d interface. libstage programs can use the internal user graphics API.

• Configurable odometry error in position model

• Gripper model that can pick up anything. Any object can be made grippable/pushable by setting the the gripper_return property.

• Pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) model.

• More and improved visualizations, including models leaving trails over time

• Any object can now have its shape specified by a bitmap file (JPG, PNG, etc.).

• Worldfile syntax has changed slightly, so you may need to edit your existing worlds to get them to work. Look at the example worlds in (stage src)/worlds to get the idea.

• Worlds can be very large (thousands of meters square).

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